Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao

Chapter 1482 - 6: Demon Origin Sky Road

Indeed, after that moment, the unknown pattern suddenly transformed, finally forming a very ancient rune. The rune shimmered with ripples of luster, and as the luster transformed and flickered, it gradually deformed into a distorted ’King’ character.

This symbol appeared before the White Tiger Saint Spirit, and then, from the White Tiger Saint Spirit’s brow, shot forth a similar ’King’ rune mark. When this mark struck the gigantic luminous pattern, the pattern suddenly opened an unknown black hole space.

Inside the black hole space, a unique singularity formed, which revealed a Void Gate. Within the Void Gate was an incomparably dark world, where the dark sky was dotted with stars, resembling a night sky.

But it was by no means an ordinary night sky, nor an ordinary sky.

In the gaze of the White Tiger Saint Spirit, Zhou Yan steeled himself and directly stepped into the unknown black hole space.

Then, an ancient strength surged through Zhou Yan’s heart, making him feel as if his entire body was experiencing a free-fall sensation into an abyss.

This feeling began to swirl, extremely intense, with tremendous impact.

Soon, when the feeling vanished, Zhou Yan felt as if he were overturned, with his head drawn toward the dark sky, while his feet were in mid-air, unable to exert any strength.

Zhou Yan sensed that the entire world had turned upside down, very peculiar.

As he slightly adapted, his figure oscillated, forming waves of unique power, then his figure transformed, his feet starting to step on the night sky, underfoot, pitch-black, surrounded by endless stars, like a dream-like world, and the road had neither a front nor a back, no darkness or light source, no direction at all.

Zhou Yan conducted a derivation on his bloodline but found no answers, though a vague feeling told him that he simply needed to move forward.

Move forward, regardless of direction.

After Zhou Yan was overturned, he flipped his body, equivalent to standing atop a ceiling and walking upside down.

In this situation, not only must he overcome unknown dangers and changes, casting the strength to his legs to latch onto the night sky, but also prevent unknown rules from reversing Heaven and Earth, inflicting destruction.

In this inverted world, not only is direction lost, time meaningless, even rules are reversed.

Here, Zhou Yan subconsciously invoked the power of evil spirits, and at the moment of invoking this evil spirit power, Zhou Yan felt an incredible harmony, comfort, and adaptation with this space.

In an instant, Zhou Yan’s eyes, within the power of evil spirits, seemed to unlock the source of power, allowing him to see everything in this world.

The night sky was not a sky, but a kind of dark ground.

Those glimmering things were not stars, but unknown crystal stones within the black veil, rotating like planets.

These crystal stones carried a unique evil spirit aura but were extremely subtle, if not seen, Zhou Yan would completely unperceive it unless he invoked the power of evil spirits afterward.

And here, the rules are reversed, and this reverse is not simply turned over but is a complete reverse of all foundations, creating another form of change.

In such a state, Zhou Yan found the evil spirit power useful, naturally calculating more in his mind, thus immediately following the White Tiger Saint Spirit’s instructions to change his avatar.

When coming here, the White Tiger Saint Spirit specifically instructed that if the energy on the Demon Origin Sky Road of the Town Domain Demon Origin could harmonize with the evil spirit energy, then his identity should certainly not be of the Master of Lei Yan’s avatar, as that would inevitably lead to unknown destruction disaster.

After Zhou Yan tested it, he immediately began altering his identity, using the power of evil spirits, along with the technique of shaping and shifting, Zhou Yan transformed into a man named ’An Rufeng.’

This was an identity prepared by the White Tiger Saint Spirit as a precaution, and An Rufeng did exist; he was always a guard by the White Tiger Saint Spirit’s side. However, due to certain reasons, this guard’s heart became dead ash and vanished through Transformation before the White Tiger Saint Spirit. Zhou Yan now adopting An Rufeng’s identity was something only known to the White Tiger Saint Spirit.

The White Tiger Saint Spirit mentioned that if the energy on this Demon Origin Sky Road harmonizes with the evil spirit energy, then the forces under the Lord of Sin might come here for the talent development and activation of evil spirit energy. In such a case, Zhou Yan encountering the forces under the Lord of Sin would be extremely dangerous.

Acknowledging this, Zhou Yan tested and changed his identity, no longer cautiously advancing. Instead, using the evil spirit energy, protecting himself, he naturally proceeded forward.

Here, aside from the rules and self-understanding, within the vast expanse of Heaven and Earth, there was no existence of life. All the scenery on the road was nearly identical, with none being special places. Just some revolving crystal stones, all the rules of motion remained consistent.

Zhou Yan walked nearly two months, yet felt as if he was walking in place, if not for ensuring that this location was indeed the Demon Origin’s Heavenly Road, and assuring that he was always advancing, Zhou Yan might suspect this place being an Illusion Array, conducting a mind-confusing attack.

And this journey seemed endless.

In this monotonous world, Zhou Yan walked for another six months.

During these months, Zhou Yan gained profound understanding of the evil spirit’s reverse rules. As a result, Zhou Yan’s comprehension of the Creation Path in the inversion of Heaven and Earth reached the Ninth Layer.

Meaning, once reversed, Zhou Yan’s Creation Immortal Principle would approach the Great Perfection of the Ninth Layer.

This speed and harvest were immense.

However, even with such great understanding, Zhou Yan’s heart still gradually sank.

He didn’t have much time to waste here, and this place, this Heavenly Road, was not an illusion but reality.

Since it’s real, the time here is also real time.

Eight months of real time had passed, and he was still here as if treading in place, this feeling, could no longer be called a feeling.

Zhou Yan felt a tinge of disappointment creeping into his heart, deep inside, a trace of irritation also began to emerge.

This emotion gradually started to expand within this lonely void.

Zhou Yan then focused on comprehending the reverse Creation Dao, reaching the Ninth Layer of Great Perfection, but since this place couldn’t reverse the rules to establish a unique domain to verify the perfection of the rules, Zhou Yan couldn’t step into the realm of Eternal Life Seven Rules, and was stuck at the status of Nine Great Perfection of Eternal Life Six Rules.

As this situation prolonged, Zhou Yan found himself unable to remain calm.

He didn’t fear illusions, nor the destructive impact from the Eternal Spirit of the heart, nor was he afraid of the impact of Seven Emotions and Six Desires. But the vast emptiness and Kong Ji present at this moment, were gradually unsettling his heart.

With his temperament, he shouldn’t be affected like this, but it was caused by the peculiar environment here.

Apparently, the longer one walks in this place, the terrifying, unknown rules amplify the irritability, desire, and all manner of things within to an extreme degree, even a King would go mad under the accumulation of long time.

It’s like putting an ordinary person in a pitch-black little room; perhaps in two days and nights, an ordinary person would go mad.

And now, in this vast space, as Zhou Yan walked along, real time was slowly passing.

Six months, twelve months, two years, five years, ten years, a hundred years, even a thousand years, Wannian.

Zhou Yan walked for a full thirty thousand years.

He was still treading in place.

He hadn’t reached the end of his path.

Just as the first time he stepped in this place.

From the very beginning, Zhou Yan started deriving all the cycles of the King Immortal Principle Sixth Great Perfection, to recalling the past, then gradually forgetting everything, forgetting all.

A meager thirty thousand years had passed, Zhou Yan couldn’t feel the meaning of existence anymore.

Everything, he lacked motivation, as if he had become completely numb.

There’s really no danger on this road.

But the absence of danger is the greatest danger.

Thirty thousand years, the Heavenly Road remained, but Zhou Yan could imagine what happened outside.

Zhou Yan’s heart had already settled, like everything under this sky, equally so dark.

Yet he did not give up, seemingly, solely to walk through this road in the eternal years.

In a blink, Zhou Yan walked another ten plus multiples of thirty thousand years, through such long years, Zhou Yan hadn’t seen life, he neither wanted nor thought anything, as if his thoughts had become rigid, silently moving forward like this.

Finally, after ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years passed, Zhou Yan saw a point, a humanoid point.

Upon seeing that point, Zhou Yan’s heart inexplicably trembled, murmuring to himself: "Finally... finally able to... see a life...?"

So many years of numbness made it difficult for Zhou Yan to utter even basic words, it seemed like his throat had stiffened to the point of immobility.

But after speaking, gradually, all memories bit by bit flowed back into his mind, Zhou Yan gradually restored the state of Nine Great Perfection of Eternal Life Six Rules, gradually recovered that kind of dried-up vitality, the Eternal Spirit also became much more active for this reason.

Soon, Zhou Yan arrived in front of this life.

It was a woman almost withered in appearance, her entire combat armor shattered and disordered, revealing much liveliness.

Her skin due to long-term energy depletion had become dull, somewhat dark, yet still incredibly smooth like congealed ointment, her face although extremely thin, in her unconscious state, still displayed a captivating visage.

Moreover, Zhou Yan recognized this woman.